Overview

Midsomer Murders' Inspector Barnaby learns that cults will kill ya'. The Lodge of the Golden Windhorse has provided the citizens of Compton Dando with splendid fodder for gossip, prompting speculation of arcane rituals and bizarre sexual practices. But with the murder of the commune's leaders, the rumor mill goes into overdrive. It's the most exciting thing to happen in Compton Dando since three boys burned down the bus shelter. In trying to solve the murders, though, Chief Inspector Barnaby is less excited than exasperated. The residents of the Windhorse commune may have been seeking the simple life, but they're all concealing complicated pasts--or past lives? As in Death of a Hollow Man, Caroline Graham is at her most gleeful when skewering the eccentricities of a closed community, and no one survives unscathed.

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""A waspishly funny tale of murder in a new-age commune"" --Daily Telegraph ""Deliciously wicked"" --Liverpool Daily Post ""Excellent mystery, skillfully handled"" --Manchester Evening News ""Graham writes with devilish wit about English village life and death"" --Des Moines Register

Author Information

Caroline Graham was born in Warwickshire, UK, on July 17, 1931. Graham received a degree in theater writing from the University of Birmingham, but she held a number of jobs before settling on writing. She attended ballet school in Paris, ran a marriage bureau, worked in a factory, served in the Royal Navy, and worked as an actress and radio broadcaster, among other things. After attempting a variety of genres, including writing for the long-running British series Crossroads, Graham wrote the first Barnaby novel, The Killings at Badger's Drift, which was an instant hit and was eventually selected by the Crime Writers' Association as one of the hundred best crime novels of all time. Starting in 1997, the Barnaby books were adapted into the immensely successful television series Midsomer Murders; the author herself has cameos in some early episodes, and it's still running now! Graham lives in Suffolk, England.

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